Dicerna enters alliance to develop hepatitis B drugs
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals has signed a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Roche to create treatments for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
The partnership will leverage Dicerna’s GalXC RNAi platform, designed to develop RNAi-based therapies that silence genes, which cause diseases in the liver and other organs.
Initially, the companies will work to develop and commercialise Dicerna’s investigational drug, DCR-HBVS, worldwide.
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